{"id":"PYSEC-2026-1492","summary":"Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)","details":"### Summary\nThe Automation feature allows a user to insert arbitrary HTML inside the task instructions, resulting in a Stored XSS. \n\n### Details\nThe `q` parameter for the `/api/automation` endpoint does not get correctly sanitized when rendered on the page, resulting in the ability of users to inject arbitrary HTML/JS.\n\n### PoC\n```\nPOST /api/automation?q=%22%3E%3C%2Ftextarea%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dalert(document.cookie)%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(2)%3C%2Fscript%3E\n```\n\n### Impact\nStored XSS:\n![image](https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/assets/115566010/6b5b9f60-e05c-448b-82b4-bf010ad8a4f0)\n\n### Fix\n- Added a Content Security Policy to all config pages on the web client, including the automation page\n- Used DOM scripting to construct all components on the config pages, including the automation page","aliases":["CVE-2024-43396","GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h"],"modified":"2026-07-07T17:46:46.013975103Z","published":"2026-07-07T14:34:39.002433Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43396"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/1c7a562880eeb7354325545d2cf6c5d1d1134812"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/55be90cdd2f9d6a09c8bf9ceea52fc36b9201626"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/khoj"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"khoj","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/khoj"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.15.0"}]}],"versions":["1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/khoj/PYSEC-2026-1492.yaml"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N"}]}